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Wednesday, July 16, 2014: 10:30 AM - 12:20 PM, Yokohama, Booth 65
Session Organizer and Chair Maria FREGIDOU-MALAMA University of Gävle Department of Business and Economic Studies Sweden Session Organizer and Chair Volkmar KREISSIG Taita Taveta University Kenya
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Session Description: Cooperation and participation are necessary when developing democracy in societies and businesses. The session focuses on how new forms of cooperation contribute to modern sustainable alternatives mobilizing participation in democratic decision making. Alternative organisational forms support democratic management and networking with people and organisations locally and globally using social relationships. The structure of organisations and its contribution to development of democratic management is an emerging ethical and challenging issue. Collaborative organisational models can be considered as sustainable participatory initiatives leading to equality. Format: Oral

Language: English Research Committee: RC10 Participation, Organizational Democracy and Self-Management (host committee) Abstract id# 35908 Start Time: 10:30 AM Multinational Compagnies, Social Responsibility and Human Resources Manager


 * Jocelyne ROBERT**, Management and leadership, HEC-Management school-University of Liege, LIEGE, Belgium and **Adeline GOEMANS**, HEC-Management school-University of Liege, Belgium

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This communication analyzes the situation of six multinational companies’ policy of "social responsibility" and of "sustainable development". The purpose of this communication is to define how these companies, especially the subsidiaries, are socially responsible and take into account environmental issues. This exploratory and qualitative study is based on the analysis of official discourse of six firms and those of human resources managers. We highlight different types of "social responsibility", the "stakeholders" that are taken into account by companies and the means implemented to achieve the policies of "sustainable development" and of "social responsibility". Our purpose is to show, beyond the official discourse, which role the subsidiaries play and which autonomy they have in their policies’ implementation. We wonder in conclusion about the hypothesis that a new way of human resource management of organizations is likely to appear through this new “social responsibility” and, conversely, if the new management involves the emergence of a new social responsibility. We will show that the types of responsibility, shown through the web site and in the HR discourses, are “ethic” (stands for the respect of the values, the standards and the requirements that stakeholders find fair) and “economic” ( focuses on the production of goods and services). Those classifications depend on the firm’s sector. The Human Resources can be more regardful for the legal aspects or for the political aspects, especially in crisis situation. The human resources play different roles and highlight different priorities: respect of fundamental values, actions of the subsidiary that are presented as models, transparent communication, gather the employees around values and projects…

Abstract id# 66317 Social Productivity. Advancing a Concept to Think about Contributions of Social Organizations


 * Tirado RICARDO** and **Sara GORDON**, Instituto de Investigaciones Sociales, UNAM, Mexico, Mexico

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The paper deals with //social productivity// as a useful criteria for assessing the contributions of social organizations to civility, solidarity and quality of life. Commonly social organizations are evaluated with these criteria: a) results, b) the impact of their actions on the world, and c) organizational capabilities. These criteria focuses on examining contributions in a field rather intangible: values and the quality of social relations. The concept points to a poor explored field, although some notable authors wrote about it. The social productivity concept points to consequences that are not always deliberately sought, since they are often unintended byproducts of organizations behavior. One important aspect is that the image and action of organizations is broadcasted into the civil sphere and it constitutes a role model, that is, it has an effect of social pedagogy. Another important aspect is that organizations' social performance can sometimes be negative, deteriorating social life. Social performance can be seen in these dimensions: 1) From the point of view of the objective or performance materiality and concerns to the contributions of the material and social welfare of the stakeholders. This includes the production of benefits, training of participants in joint decision making, the implementation of the decisions and setting and enforcing rules. 2) From the point of view of the factors affecting the formation of sociality, it focus on the relationship with the environment in which the organizations operate and interact, and covers the image projected by the organization, its actions and how all this stuff interacts with other institutions and actors. These are issues which impact on social connectivity, civility, the public sphere, and the construction of the meanings which are shaping society.

//**Defining Urban Renewal in Tehran: The Complex Dialogue Between Citizens and Municipality**// Sahar SAEIDNIA , SOCIOLOGY, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales/ Institut de Recherche Interdisciplinaire sur les enjeux Sociaux EHESS-IRIS, PARIS, France and Mina SAIDI SHAROUZ , Sciences de l'Homme et de la Société pour l'Architecture, Ecole Nationale d'Architecture Paris la Villette (ENSAPLV), PARIS, France; GEOGRAPHY, Université Paris Ouest-Nanterre La Défense/ Mosaïque-LAVUE, PARIS, France; Anthropology - Architecture, Université Paris Ouest-Nanterre La défense/ Mosaiques-LAVUE, France, TEHRAN, France - paper transferred from Session 7: New forms of participation on Tuesday, July 15, 2014: 05:30 PM - 07:20 PM, Yokohama, Booth 65 Since 2006 Tehran municipality has started a pilot environmental and urban development project in Beryanak, an old southern and popular neighbourhood particularly exposed to seismic dangers. This new urban experiment, part of a wider environmental seismic prevention project, aimed at implementing a participatory urban renewal based on a dialogue with inhabitants, the neighbourhood council, local associations and with a scientific mediation of a research unit of anthropologists and town planners. This project involving professional and social dialogue was innovative in Tehran, where a centralized and technical approach was traditionally favoured. More broadly, it reflects the participatory shift in urban policies illustrated by the decentralization law of 1997 and the creation of elected neighbourhood councils in Tehran in the 2000’s. This paper will examine this complex dialogue and the way neighbourhood councils have progressively positioned themselves as key actors of urban development in Tehran. Indeed these collaborative and participatory organizations designed to integrate ordinary citizens to the definition of their city’s public policies, have encountered many difficulties to fit in the local political space. Thus, this paper will focus on the different conditions and modalities of mediation and cooperation in the Beryanak project and how they evolved through time. We will both study the structure of the dialogue, mainly the habitus, backgrounds and representations of the actors (town planners, neighbourhood councils, municipality, etc.), and the tensions, conflicts or the asymmetry between them in terms of positions, knowledge, power, interest or resources. This paper is mainly based on a long-term field study conducted in Beryanak (Teheran) since 2006 (participant observations of deliberative experiences, project’s meetings observations and semi-structured interviews with City advisors, neighbourhood councillors, citizens, researchers, state representatives, religious field actors, etc.).

//**The promotion of Agency in a Conflict Affected Context, the Social Participation of Children and Adolescents in the West Bank**// Vittorio IERVESE **Assistant Professor:** University of Modena and Reggio Emilia Largo S. Eufemia, 19 Department of Studies on Language and Culture Modena, 41121 Italy **Phone Number:** 00390592055922 **Fax Number:** 00390592055931 **Email:** vittorio.iervese@unimore.it -- Will not be published - paper transferred from session 13 Childhood and participation Abstract Text: One of the most challenging narratives in the past few years (and probably one of the most stimulating for the future) has been the importance of children’s active participation not only in terms of having the right to say, but of the right to choose among alternatives in communication systems, i.e. in terms of practicing agency rather than simply having voice. Supporting and improving children’s capabilities means promoting children’s participation beyond their right to speak and to be heard, to a wider concept of active citizenship, which means contribution to the structuring of social systems. In this approach, therefore, children’s capabilities assume the social form of children’s agency. In other words, the idea of agency emphasizes that children can condition the actions of their interlocutors in communication with them, above all in interactions and can, in this way, transform the social structures. This presentation tries to examine how children's agency and participation can be promoted in a conflict-affected context. With this aim the chapter conducts an evaluative analysis of a project of international cooperation developed by Oxfam Italy and the Palestinian NGO Dci/Ps which is aimed to promote social participation and to raise children’s rights awareness among Palestinian children and adolescents. The analysis is conducted by drawing on theoretical and methodological concepts from recent literature on social participation, sociology of childhood and Sen’s capability approach, and looking at 1. the structures that promote agency in communication processes, 2. the ways in which agency modifies the structures of communication processes. The analysis of videorecorded data permitted some conclusions about social conversion processes and factors of agency, which allow social change. Our datas show that social change can be enhanced through children and adults’ turns, but it is determined only in the self-organisation of a communication system.

Abstract id# 42740 Paper withdrawn Do Private Neighborhood Associations Affect Civic Participation? an Empirical Study of China's Homeowner Associations


 * Feng WANG**, Public Administration, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, Shanghai, China and Haitao YIN, Dept. of Economics, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China

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After China’s 1998 housing reform, a large number of homeowner associations (HOAs) emerged in urban areas. Chinese HOAs actively have mobilized residents to solve neighborhood problems, such as organizing petitions and demonstrations and supporting their members to run for local office. Therefore, they are considered an emerging social force with the dynamism to promote civic participation and local democracy. Yet, little work has examined empirically the extent to which Chinese HOAs function as healthy democratic mechanisms in neighborhood governance. This paper examines the impact of HOA internal political life on residents’ civic awareness and participatory behaviors through regression analyses of a survey on registered HOAs in Beijing. The findings show that most HOAs in Beijing operate based on democratic principles. They have created various governing structures to encourage resident participation; they have open and shared decision-making processes on important issues; and most HOA leaders trust their members’ civic efficacy. The findings support the hypotheses that organizations with institutionalized democratic governing structures for participation and good communication channels more likely improve residents’ civic awareness and participation.

Abstract id# 63044 Paper withdrawn School-Family Partnership: What Does It Mean?


 * Eva GONÇALVES**, CIES, ISCTE, Lisboa, Portugal

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Nowadays, school-family partnership is seen as a benefit in itself not only by the common sense but also by science and education policy, as a way to promote students’ success (Coleman & Schneider, 1993; Davies, 1996; Epstein, 2009). Scholar systems have endured several changes since the 80s of the last century, when national governments engaged in a process of increasing schools autonomy - expecting a better human/material resources management and a new way to regulate schools through parents’ choices and through the presence of community members in schools governing boards (Barroso, 2006, Eurydice, 2007). Also, parents are expected to be more active in their students’ scholar path after the implementation of policies like school choice and obligation of schools and public authorities to share all kinds of information with families. But are teachers willing to work with other community members? And do families want that extra task of being a partner in their children’s school within school space? The aim of this study is to search what school-family partnership means to teachers and parents in a country where civic participation is very low. Nineteen parents and seventeen teachers of six Portuguese schools, chosen according to several criteria (size of the school measured by the number of students, location, rural-urban factor, socioeconomic status of the community) where interviewed (through semi-directed interviews) and their speeches were analyzed through content analysis. Results show that student profile may have more influence over the way parents participate in school and get involved with their children’s education, in comparison with variables like socioeconomic status and the location of school.

Abstract id# 68641 Paper withdrawn The weak ties like a <leo_highlight style="border-bottom: 2px solid rgb(255, 255, 150); background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-repeat: repeat; background-attachment: scroll; background-position: 0% 50%; -moz-background-size: auto auto; cursor: pointer; display: inline; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;" id="leoHighlights_Underline_0" onclick="leoHighlightsHandleClick('leoHighlights_Underline_0')" onmouseover="leoHighlightsHandleMouseOver('leoHighlights_Underline_0')" onmouseout="leoHighlightsHandleMouseOut('leoHighlights_Underline_0')" leohighlights_keywords="tool" leohighlights_url_top="http%3A//shortcuts.thebrowserhighlighter.com/leonardo/plugin/highlights/3_2/tbh_highlightsTop.jsp?keywords%3Dtool%26domain%3Disarc10internetforum.wikispaces.com" leohighlights_url_bottom="http%3A//shortcuts.thebrowserhighlighter.com/leonardo/plugin/highlights/3_2/tbh_highlightsBottom.jsp?keywords%3Dtool%26domain%3Disarc10internetforum.wikispaces.com" leohighlights_underline="true">tool for creating new russian citizen protest


 * Valery DUBROVIN**, Higher school of economics, National Research University, Moscow, Russia

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Some current protest actions in Russia took place after federal electoral campaigns (elections in the parliament and presidential election). Those events mobilized citizens for protest in the specific way which in recent year was not used. This specific channel is social network. All of that facts encourage researchers to take into consideration and pay special attention to the new factor of social networks and its growing influence on modern political process. The phenomenon of social networks, their functions, new tools of cooperation in protest movements should be analyzed for better understanding efficient cooperation in networks. Social networks represent ties system, in which the individual is considered to be a node. Nodes, relationships and flows of information, streaming among participants of the network in the different ways, are systematized and called a social network. Despite the lack of time for the analysis of social networks like new mass media, the internet phenomenon, there is a need for understanding the social network like social ties among people. The most important part of social network in protest cooperation is the information transition by different kinds of ties. The concept of “weak and strong” ties was considered and described by M. Granovetter in his works [M. S. Granovetter May, 1973 “The Strength of Weak Ties” American Journal of Sociology, Volume 78, Issue 6, 1360-1380] and this approach will be useful for research a cooperation in protest movements in Russia.

Abstract id# 50208 Paper withdrawn Culture of Austerity: Engagement, Participation and Equity in a Context of Crisis
 * Hans ROLLMANN**, Gender, Feminist & Women's Studies, York University, Toronto, ON, Canada

Abstract Text: Culture of austerity: Engagement, participation and equity in a context of crisis This paper explores the impact of austerity policies on trade unions, and specifically on workers’ participation and engagement with equity and diversity initiatives. In the wake of austerity-driven and neoliberal restructuring of their workplaces, unions have responded with efforts at structural reform designed to promote greater diversity and equity within their unions. My research has explored how unions’ efforts to restructure in response to the sense of ‘crisis’ has, paradoxically, generated a hostile response among members, who find themselves pressured by a deteriorating labour market on the one hand, and dramatic structural change in their unions on the other. This has had a significant impact on how members (as well as union staff and leaders) experience and respond to diversity and equity initiatives. It has also had a broader impact on labour relations processes, as both unions (resisting and responding to austerity) and employers (responding to and exploiting austerity) co-opt and appropriate the language of equity and diversity to pursue competing agendas. In this paper I explore specifically what impact this context has had on workers’ participation in union-driven structural reform and equity initiatives, drawing on an ethnographic, comparative study of union restructuring initiatives in Canada. My analysis suggests that effective union responses to austerity must be driven by an awareness of the contradictions experienced by workers, and that an intersectional, micro-level approach to equity and diversity initiatives is key to mobilizing substantive worker participation in response to the ‘crisis’.

Abstract id# 53016 Paper withdrawn Job Satisfaction and Job Enrichment in Co-Operative Sector
 * Dr. Chandrashekhar YARAM**, Sociology, Kuvempu University, Shimoga, Karnataka, India, Shimoga, India and Dr. Ravindranath KADAM, Economics, Kuvempu University, Shimoga, Karnataka, India, Shimoga, India

Abstract Text: *** Dr. Chandrashekhar .S** * Professor & Chairman, Department of P.G. Studies and Research in Sociology Kuvempu University, Shankaraghatta -577451.Shimoga District, Karnataka. India.
 * JOB SATISFACTION AND JOB ENRICHMENT IN CO-OPERATIVE SECTOR**

Dr. Ravindranath Kadam Associate Professor, Department of P.G. Studies and Research in Economics, Kuvempu University, Shankaraghatta -577451.Shimoga District, Karnataka. India.

**Abstract** Job enrichment is a comprehensive term which means addition or increase of some desirable quality, attribute of ingredient to the work performance if employees. This research paper discus about the relationship between job enrichment and job satisfaction in a cooperative passive transport cooperative society (TCS). This society has salient feature having a principle of “All are Workers and are Members”. Here no bossism, no ownership, no Hide and Seeks. It has totally transparent system of management. Since its inception in 1991, till this day this transportation has not incurred either deficit or loss in its annual budget. Employees will get salaries in time, bonus every year, leave facility and all the perks as usual this is very unusual and rare kind in cooperation sector This transport society has 76 buses, having 300 employee which includes all the cadres in this system from mechanic to management. In this article, research intends to identify the essential and rare human characters in general and job commitment in particular Interview schedule and questionnaire was administer in procuring the personal information from respondents the data available was analysed with the statistical tools, and tested by Chi square and C test. **Key Concepts:** Job Satisfaction, Job enrichment, Cooperative sects, Work Performance.